My reporting is very specific: You sit on the board of a front org that is fully controlled by the Qatari gov't and they continue to trot you out as a spokesperson for the group. That is something you cannot deny. I never said you work directly for Qatar.

Update: CNN has removed Kayyem's ICSS (the Qatar front group) board position from her bio. It was still there as of a couple of hours ago. I have reached out to CNN for comment.

In describing the claim as a false allegation, CNN confirmed to me that Kayyem was under contract with the Qatar-controlled institution, but says she is no longer there. I didn't know she was being paid... Kayyem's bio has for many years stated her affiliation with ICSS.

Update: Kayyem is in full damage control mode. Harvard just changed Kayyem's bio to say that she *was* affiliated w/ ICSS until 2015.

Also, if Kayyem was indeed under contract from 2012-2015, that means she was taking $$$ from Qatar *while* running for Mass. Governor.

According to Kayyem's Linkedin, she has been a CNN nat sec analyst since 2013. While she may not be presently affiliated with ICSS, CNN admitted that she was "under contract" with the Qatari front for at least three of the years she was working for CNN. Yikes.

Kayyem's *own website* still maintains that she is an active board member with ICSS. So as of this morning, Harvard, CNN, and juliettekayyem.com listed her as a current board member. Seems odd, no?

Can confirm that registered Qatari foreign agents held in person meetings last year w/ both Marty Baron (exec editor of WaPo) and Dean Bacquet (exec editor of NYT). If Democracy indeed "Dies in Darkness," shouldn't we have right to know what was discussed in those meetings?

Details: The Qatar lobbyists met with Baquet in New York City on 7/26/18 for a "General discussion on Qatar" & a lawsuit involving fmr RNC official Elliot Broidy, who has been a target of Qatar for some time. The next day, the lobbyists met in person w/ WaPo's Marty Baron in D.C.

Unclear why top bosses 2 biggest US publications sat in on meetings w/ Qatar lobbyists. 2 days prior, WaPo got a "scoop" from the lobbyists, which was described as an op-ed, but ended up being written by a WaPo reporter(?). Reads like pro-Doha propaganda:washingtonpost.com/world/national…

As low profile FL Mayor, Andrew Gillum spoke at a 16' Qatar conference in Doha. Never discussed it publicly. All $$$ paid for, likely by Rick Smotkin, who recently registered as a Qatari lobbyist. Smotkin later donated max $ amount to Gillum campaign for Gov. Very, very sketchy.

The issue here is Gillum using a representative of a foreign state as his apparent travel agent. And in addition to letting Qatar pay for his expenses, the lobbyist, who is paid by Qatar, gives max $ to his campaign. This is how the seeds of foreign bribery scandals are planted.

Only local papers covered the Qatari conference once it was revealed through email disclosures. But the ties between Smotkin, the Qatari foreign agent, and Gillum appear to be much deeper than we were led to believe amp.tallahassee.com/amp/794165001

There is a lot of perspective missing in Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism debate. (THREAD)1. In her native Somalia, pretty much everyone has a negative view of Jews. There are no Jews in Somalia so viewpoints are established from myths, folklore, which contain anti-Semitic conspiracies

2. This is why assimilation in the United States is SO SO important. The Somali refugee community in MN is very much insulated from outside perspectives. This has led to a tremendous ISIS indoctrination and extremism problem, among other things.

3. Omar is a product of a community that has not properly assimilated. Her anti-Semitism is representative of Islamic supremacist culture, also representative of an ongoing US policy failure. She is not in any way unique. This video really hammers it home:

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ICYMI In Steele's deposition, he was asked if he went over his testimony with the parties interested in the last memo of the dossier (XBT servers). Parties mentioned:

Simpson
Buzzfeed
FCO (MI6)
Penn Quarter Group (Daniel Jones)

The third one is very very interesting.

PQG is interesting as it pertains to the info op Daniel Jones was involved in post election. But during the campaign, Steele was submitting reports to MI6 for national security. While being paid by "political rivals" of Trump, according to NYT just yesterday 3/14/19.

See thread. I don't think its commonly known or reported that Steele was giving his dossier memos to "FCO" (a benign way of describing MI6). While also briefing the US Dept of State (Nuland, Winer, Strobe Talbott), FBI and DOJ. On Hillary's lawfirm's dime.

Psychological Projection.
Define Conspiracy.1. a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
"a conspiracy to destroy the government"2. the action of plotting or conspiring.
"they were cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"
[Fake News]

Hokay. People asking about how train drivers are trained, when they rest, why they can't be hired quicker etc. so here's a VERY GENERAL primer on that (disclaimer: it varies greatly across the network) 1/

So think of train drivers as being across between school teachers and footballers: the ROLE requires a very specific general skillset which only a finite number of people can do well (the footballer bit) and each JOB also requires very specific knowledge (the teacher bit) /2

So training as a driver is essentially a two-stage process. The first part is about developing and testing out the general driving skills, while the second part is about getting the skills on the RIGHT lines and the RIGHT trains you will be driving day in, day out. /3

Rudd linked the treatment of #windrush to the culture of the Home Office – failing to look at people. (That’s the reason why she is now the victim of leaks – not right but not surprising).

So the question is why do officials do that. One reason is that they feel pressure to meet targets for performance Ministers have set. And as Diane Abbott said it matters what the target is. (lots of work on how targets drive behaviour..)

Let’s analyze some #QAnon crumbs, something this account has never done nor plans on making a habit of doing regularly.

This thread will raise possibilities rather than giving definitive conclusions. The aim is to provide you with enough resources and starting points to dig deeper into the areas which interest you most.

I’ve tried my best to keep it clear and entertaining despite its length.

I’ve gotten a few requests for my take on SecureDrop and @Snowden in relation to Q and the ongoing IC war (CIA v DIA), so I figured I’d share my analysis…